Source: The Emergency Times
The following is an extremely touching film by producer Ziad Zafar about the Missing People at the heart of the controversies that led to the Chief Justice’s initial dismissal. It was set to be released on Nov 21st in a viewing at FAST-NU Lahore but the authorities clamped down on this and prevented the viewing.
Since then, it has moved on to the digital world, originally uploaded at [The Critique Aggregator ] while simultaneously uploaded on the Missing in Pakistan blog.
Watch the video and spread the word, if you want to download a full screen version then download from RapidShare 103MB.
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Tags: , Disappearances, Missing
5 responses so far ↓
1 ScaredPakistani // Dec 10, 2007 at 3:58 pm
When is my turn? When will someone pick me up? When will I be tortured? Can I speak up against a General? Can I speak up against a chief minister? Can I even speak against a SHO (who is probably the lowest police officer)?
NO NO NO … This is Pakistan. I as Pakistani have no right, no respect, no protection and no freedom…
After watching this documentary, I am scared, terrified and ashamed to be a Pakistani …. we all should be …
2 Alya // Dec 14, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Oh my God … it makes me cry ….
3 oal // Jan 14, 2008 at 11:20 pm
In the U.S., more close to 51,000 adults have gone missing are the subjects of searches by both Federal and private parties. References:
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/index.php
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/forensics/americas_missing/2.html
That is an astounding figure–again, 50,000 brothers, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons.
There’s much categorical reasoning about who disappears and why, and while here the government is not held up as the big bad bogey with a Gulag, there remains still a mystery attending each and every one of those lost souls.
It may be easier in the nature of things to account for fear and mistrust, especially where assessing information is concerned. Politically motivated agitation and propagand, censorship, and intimidation leaves new media viewers and old fashioned readers alike searching for verifiable reportage, and where it’s not to be found or a public has found that it has been misinformed, trust both in language and in people decays.
I wish I knew more about the development of common cause and trust across complex societies, especially as politicians and others develop power by siezing on and increasing the polarization between their positions, which they may do largely through suggestion and by making much of trivial differences between people.
Mobs don’t keep records but governments do, and over time the truth comes out in old memos, orders, purchase receipts, and rosters; where such do not come to light, one need not overestimate the powers of the state.
4 Fahaddapa // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:41 am
mad tight
5 faisaldipoa // Jan 15, 2008 at 7:42 am
madest tightest
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